Republicans Yield 11 Hours, Final Senate Health Vote Christmas Eve

***Republicans are looking after the American public? Hah! What a laugh…since when does the Republican Party care what the people think? They’re only interested in the best interest of themselves and whatever keeps the rich richer.
Posted by: justayreal 74 | Dec 22, 2009 4:34:20 PM***
Regardless of party affiliation, most of our elected congressman have proven that they are bureaucrats first and foremost, and representatives a distant second. Their only function is to secure their self-interests and ensure their reelection. That goes for Republicans and Democrats.

It appears that the real problem is government, career politicians have taken over and their first job priority is either getting elected or getting re-elected to office. Their next job priority which is far below the first is to pass legislation the people need. Ask yourself would you spend millions of dollars for a job which pays only slightly more than $200k per year and in the case of a member of the House of Representatives do it every two years? It is time to get rid of the career politician and get folks in office who are there to do the people’s business rather than line their own pockets. All present Congressmen and all running for Congress in the future should be asked to fully support proposed Constitutional amendment COE09E33. This is a simple easy to understand two page bill, Google COE09E33 to read it for yourself. This one simple bill would result in change that we the people could really believe in.

The only ones interested in watvching the cost on this bill are the Republicans and Joe Liberman. Every social program has cost way more than the original estimates. http://#### Obama’s Latest Health Care Lie
Matt Welch | December 22, 2009
That would be in remarks the president made yesterday:
Let me be clearThe Congressional Budget Office now reports that this bill will reduce our deficit by $132 billion over the first decade, and by as much as $1.3 trillion in the decade after that. So I just want to be clear, for all those who are continually carping about how this is somehow a big spending government bill, this cuts our deficit by $132 billion the first 10 years, and by over a trillion in the second. That argument that opponents are making against this bill does not hold water.
There are actually multiple lies and deceptions in this paragraph, beginning with the verb “reports” to describe what the Congressional Budget Office does. The CBO, as Peter Suderman documented in his foundational Reason feature on the organization, does not “report,” it “projects,” in highly speculative fashion, what a proposed piece of legislation may cost. What’s more, as Suderman detailed in a more recent piece that every American should read before listening to a word the president says, the CBO is bound in its “scoring” to take at face value what every living politician?Obama included?knows to be a stinking lie. That is, Congress’ promises to make hundreds of billions of dollars worth of unspecified future spending “cuts.”Cue ABCnews.com’s Jake Tapper:
Not Doug ElmendorfBut the deficit reduction number cited by the president has been disavowed by CBO.
When CBO first guesstimated by how much the Senate health reform legislation would reduce the deficit, they said it would be about half a percent of GDP — $1.3 billion, said Democrats.
But on Sunday, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf issued a correction, downgrading the estimate from half a percent of GDP to between a quarter and a half a percent. The reason is that CBO misinterpreted when recommendations from the Medicare Advisory Committee would kick in.

This is going to cost way more then that. You think abortion is bad wait till these socialist take away medicaid and you become a piece of hamburger like the unborn are.

I am ashamed of congress. You say Afghananistan is corrupt but look at yourselves. Thievery, bribery, lies and deception all for money and power. We will vote all 60 of you out soon . make it 61 in 2012.

Both parties should be completely ashamed. Democrats appear to be morons and crooks. Republicans are total hypocrites because they keep saying that this healthcare bill is not what Americans want and is totally wrong. Well, why the heck didn’t you try to fix our obviously broken system while YOU were in power??!!

That’s awfully nice of them to “Read” this bill. We wouldn’t want them just passing any old thing. You know like a bill that has an addition to it making it impossible for future congresses to make any changes to the bill. Yep! There is wording in this bill that blocks future congresses from acting against it. HOW UNCONSTITUTIONAL CAN YOU GET!!!! If this bill was so good why aren’t any Republicans voting for it. If it’s so good why can’t we have the time to read it ourselves so WE can decide. If it’s so good why are other Democrats being paid off to vote for it. The list goes on and on. It’s a bad bill meant to “Spread the Wealth” of ALL AMERICANS. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO We don’t want it!

This bill is a crime against the American People. People without health care need to understand that. They also need to understand that this will cost them more then it will save them. Once you embrace those facts we can defeat the bill. Right now too many Americans still believe this bill is good for them. They have to stop. This is a catastrophy waiting to happen. Trillions of dollars without the possibility of repealing it. SCARY SCARY SCARY. Everyone, please snap out of this fog you’re in. a 2000+ page bill that no one is allowed to read HAS TO BE BAD. Bills and amendments signed at 1am during the Christmas holiday when people are pre-occupied can’t be good. It’s a “Legal Crime” being pushed on the American People.

Do the Dems think we are that stupid that we will not be listening and watching what is happening on Christmas Eve? Reid and Polosi you are gone. Notice how Rangel and Waters and the like have shut up for now. The dems will have their pork butts oven roasted next election.

The sooner the Senate goes home the sooner they stop spending our money!!!! Good thing they don’t get paid by the hour.